Open grate and heater



(No Model.)

W. S. ESSIOK. OPEN GRATB AND HEATER.

No. 423,141. Patented Mar. 11, 1890..

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tion.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. FSSIOK, OF ROYERS FORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

OPEN G RATE. AN D H EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,141, dated March11, 1890.

Application filed December 3, 1887. Serial No. 256,865. (No model-l Toall whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, \VILLIAM S. EsSIOK,a citizen of the United States,residing at Royers Ford, in the county of Montgomery, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Open Gratesand Heaters, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and accompanying drawlugs.

My invention consists of an open grate havin g a passage in the upperportion of its frame, which may be occupied by a register for admittingheat from the back of the stove into the room or apartment, and whensaid heat is not desired the opening maybe closed by tile, as will behereinafter fully set forth.

Figure 1 represents a front View of a grate and heater embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a view of the register therefor. Fig. 3represents a vertical section of a portion on line 0: 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4represents a View of a portion on said line m 02, Fig. 1, showing,however, the register, Fig. 2, in place of the tile-frame, Fig. 1. Fig.5 represents a front view of a portion of the upper part of thegrate-frame with the register and tile frame removed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an open grate, and B the framethereof, which parts, excepting the features of my invention appliedthereto, are of well-known construc- In the upper part of the frame B isa horizontal passage 0, which, as will be seen, forms a communicationbetween the space over the rear portion of the grate and, the room orapartment within which the grate is located. In the side walls of thepassage 0 are openings D to receive screws E, which latter are passedthrough the ends of the register F, Fig. 2, or the tile-frame G, Fig. 1,it being noticed that the openings in said regiseither said register ortile-frame is to be secured to the frame B the screws E occupy thecoincident openings, thus holding elther of said parts in position onthe frame B.

Vhen it is desired to utilize the direct heat from the back of the grateinto the apartment, the register F is secured to the frame B, in whichcase the tile-frame G is evidently re moved, the register being adaptedto be open ed and closed for regulating the heat, as evident. WVhen,however, it is not desirable thus to employ said heat, the register isdisplaced, and in lieu thereof the tile-frame G is secured to the frameB, thus covering the opening 0.

The tiles employed are of any suitable construction, and are secured tothe frame G by the back plate H, the screws J employed passing throughsaid plate into the frame G, thus clamping the tiles in position.

The base of the grate is formed, as is usual, with openings leading tothe space around the grate or heater, so that the air admitted throughsaid openings becomes heated, in which condition it reaches the topchamber back of the passage 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

I11 an open grate and heater, the frame B, having in its upper part thehorizontal passage O, the latter forming a communication betweenthespace above the rear of the grate and the apartment in which saidgrate is located, and a removable plate secured to said frame andcovering the front of said passage C, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

WM. S. ESSICK.

Witnesses:

H. P. RAYSOR,

E. SPRINGER.

